Category: WeChat News

Alphabet’s Google announced on Wednesday that it has launched an artificial intelligence game on Tencent’s WeChat.

The game, named Caihua Xiaoge in Chinese, is similar to Google’s web game “Quick, Draw!”, which requires players to draw a simple sketch of the named object in a limited time of 20 seconds. This game is based on Google’s AI image recognition technology, and is a WeChat “mini app”, which works only within WeChat. Continue reading “[News]Google Launched AI Games on WeChat”

Chinese messaging app WeChat dominates its domestic market, as its would-be foreign competitors are often blocked in China. Today, WeChat has removed what could be considered its most “American” feature: a famous photo of Earth called Blue Marble taken from outer space in 1972 by NASA. For years, the image was prominently displayed on the app’s start screen, but WeChat is replacing NASA’s photo with one taken by a Chinese satellite. Both images are Photoshopped to have the silhouette of a human standing before the Earth. Continue reading “[News]WeChat Changes Splash Screen from NASA’s Earth Photo to Chinese Satellite Replica”

WeChat, known in China as the app that offers everything from messaging to a ubiquitous payment service, is getting its own augmented reality framework; at over 963 million active users, the popular Chinese app could put AR in the hands (and minds) in more than just the mobile tech savvy. Continue reading “[News]WeChat is Creating its Own VR Platform”